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Why Were You Born?

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What is your destiny? Why do you exist? Is there a reason, a purpose, for human life? These questions have baffled the greatest thinkers and philosophers down through the ages.

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Photo illustration of a shepherd standing in field at dark.

The Question of the Ages: Why Were You Born?

9 minutes
What is your destiny? Why do you exist? Why were you born? Is there a reason, a purpose, for human life?
A monkey picking at another monkey. A man looking through a microscope.

The Spirit in Man

2 minutes
The spirit in man imparts human intellect to our physical brains. It is what makes people vastly more intelligent than animals.
Crown of thorns, old nails and old hammer.

Destination and Course Correction: Planned From the Outset

3 minutes
Through Jesus Christ's sacrifice, human beings can be reconciled to God, and God's forgiveness of their sin will remove the death penalty.
A person holding a baby's hand.

God's Own Literal Children

20 minutes
That family relationship of becoming children of God the Father is the heart and core of God's incredible plan for humanity!
A silhouette of a family.

The God Family

4 minutes
The human family was meant as a lesser model or type of this greater spiritual reality, that God is a family.
An unborn baby.

Adoption or Sonship?

7 minutes
Scripture makes clear that God actually begets us spiritually in His own image, with the intention that we ultimately become the same kind of beings...
Shelves of old books.

Early Theologians on Becoming Divine

5 minutes
While the biblical concept of deification or divinization, exaltation to godhood, is commonly ignored or dismissed in modern Christian teaching, this...
A water baptism.

Life in God's Family

15 minutes
Never underestimate the value of your life. You were born to become one of God's divine children. You were born to receive His very nature and...
A galaxy of stars.

The Likeness of God

4 minutes
When fully in God's likeness, we will be able to fulfill our awesome responsibility of exercising dominion over, of assisting Him in managing, the...